Listed Building record MDO11272 - Red Lion Public House, Market Place, Blandford Forum

The present Red Lion Inn stands at the rear of No.20 Market Place (for earlier site, see ST 80 NE 90). It has a dentil cornice as on the back elevation of the main building, and gauged brick window lintels as on the north front. The front wall, facing east, originally had in its south part a central doorway with two windows on each side; but the doorway was widened, the two southern windows were rebuilt, and one of the northern windows was obliterated in the 19th century, leaving only one original window intact. Of the five symmetrically disposed first-floor windows one is now blocked. A first-floor room contains a fireplace of about 1750. <2-3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1971 (Map). SWX1197.

(ST 88510625) PH

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 47 (Monograph). SDO146.

<3> DOE (HHR), 1973, DOE (HHR) Blandford Forum RD Dorset September 1973, 33 (Scheduling record). SDO17703.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205521 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 2 2022 2:37PM